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most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

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astro-ph.CO2012★ 86 cited

The BOSS Lyman-alpha Forest Sample from SDSS Data Release 9

Khee-Gan Lee, Stephen Bailey, Leslie E. Bartsch +50

We present the BOSS Lyman-alpha (Lya) Forest Sample from SDSS Data Release 9, comprising 54,468 quasar spectra with zqso > 2.15 suitable for Lya forest analysis. This data set prob…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 273 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release

Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Eric Aubourg +73

We present the Data Release 9 Quasar (DR9Q) catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The catalog includes all BOSS objec…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 337 cited

Column density distribution and cosmological mass density of neutral gas: Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Data Release 9

P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, W. C. Carithers +19

We present the first results from an ongoing survey for Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) in the spectra of z>2 quasars observed in the course of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscop…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 2.1k cited

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

Kyle S. Dawson, David J. Schlegel, Christopher P. Ahn +162

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…